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The annual biography and obituary for the year ... (v. 9)
The annual biography and obituary for the year - v. 9 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. III. Sir EDWARD BULLER, Bart. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, AND RECORDER OF THE BOROUGH OF EAST LOOE. 1 His gallant officer was the descendant of a Family... more » which, from its antiquity and alliances, has long been eminent in the counties of Devon and Cornwall. Richard Buller, the immediate ancestor of the numerous highly-respected individuals of that name, now living in those counties, was a younger son of a Somersetshire family, and settled at Tregarrick, in Cornwall, early in the sixteenth century. He married Margaret, widow of Edward Courtenay, of Landrake, Esq. and daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Trethuriffe, of Trethuriffe, in that county, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay, of Boconnock, Knight, sister of Edward, seventh Earl of Devon, K. G. (the lineal descendant of Hugh Courtenay, second Earl of Devon, by Margaret, second daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, fourth Earl of Hereford and Essex, Lord High Constable of England, by Elizabeth Plantagenet, his wife, seventh daughter of King Edward I.) and great-great-aunt and co-heiress of Edward Courtenay, second Marquis of Exeter, and tenth and last Earl of Devon of that family. John Francis Buller, of Morval, in Cornwall, sixth in descent from the said Richard and Margaret Trethuriffe, married, in 1716, Rebecca, third daughter and co-heiress of Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Bart. Bishop of Winchester, and by her had anumerous- family. His second son, John Buller, Esq. was for many years one of the lords of the admiralty, and afterwards one of the lords of the treasury, and represented East Looe in several parliaments. By his first wife, Mary, daughter of Sir John St. Aubyn, third baronet, he had three sons f, of whom Edward, the subject of this memoir, was the second. His lordship was descended from John Trelawney and ...« less